Digimon Cyber Sleuth

Does this game ever get hard? I'm nearing chapter 10 and pretty much everything goes down in a couple of hits. That said, the whole evolution system is fairly interesting and the story is compelling enough, so that's been carrying the game for me.
How does HM compare to this one? I got the collection on switch, so I do plan on playing it eventually as well.

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Normal mode never gets hard. Should've played on hard.

Digimon Cyber Sleuth is one of those games where Normal mode is too easy and Hard mode is stupidly autistic that can only be beaten with very specific Digimon that have been bred and evolved to have all the most broken skills possible.

I like playing a lot of games on hard mode, but Cyber Sleuth's hard mode wasn't fun at all so I swapped it back to Normal.

>can only be beaten with very specific Digimon that have been bred and evolved to have all the most broken skills possible.
I beat it just by spamming piercing attacks.

In the main story, only a select few fights are actually challenging. Mostly Eaters and some of the Royal Knights. In Hacker's Memory there's a guy with a team of 3, don't remember the other two but I remember his middle mon being Dinobeemon, that's a significant difficulty spike too. And one fight against Seraphimon/Cherubimon, that one is insane.
Other than that, everything's pretty easy. Hacker's Memory does have some slight challenge in the form of Domination Battles since you have to rely on teammates with fixed teams as well as your own, and the battles are structured differently. But overall, not that hard.

do all eaters get screwed by piercing attacks? I happened to have an int piercing digimon with me during one of those fights and that thing melted in like two hits

Everything in the game gets screwed by piercing. It totally trivializes the endgame.

Most of them, Eater gimmicks are high defensive stats but low HP, so piercing attacks fuck them up hard.

Like said. Best way to play is to crank it to hard as soon as you think the game is getting too easy. Get used to the challenge early on and make every boss battle and team big brain. This also will force you to learn the best ways to raise your digimon. It's just a more enjoyable experience imo.

that's kind of a bummer, but oh well. one more question: does int encompass both damage and defense?

might have to give that a shot, though honestly I don't mind easy games. it's just that I kept hearing about this game in smt discussions and I figured it would be at least a bit challenging

Hacker's Memory is basically just CS with a few improvements and some of the kinks ironed out, including but not limited to translation and balancing/difficulty curve.

Yes

The biggest challenge is in the post-game and optional fights. The seven demon lords, the highest tier tournaments, the GranDracmon rematch, those are where you need to minmax the shit out of your team to even stand a chance on hard mode.

Fuuuuuuck. Last I played of Cyber Sleuth was getting fucked my the Great Challenges. Pushing off doing the story at such a climactic part feels so wrong though, but I can't leave the challenges undone either.

Digimon is beyond based

You can change the difficulty in the options, be warned, the jump to Hard is a lot bigger than you might be expecting, most of my team got onehit by the first of the Royal Knights after I changed it

The final boss will be a joke if you get your team strong enough to actually clear the Great Challenges. Just warning you.

He's clearly not just speaking about the story. Demon Lords, Royal Knights, and the tournaments all factor into that most likely. Leopardmon in particular is a complete pain in the ass because that entire fight is dependent on how many times he decides to do a regular attack instead of buffing his speed. Then you have Omegamon and the team-wipe attack at 20% HP. Or the Diablomon in the final tournament that gets two turns one after the other with neutral damage 3000+ damage attacks that hit your entire party.

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Ebemon can be a bit of a difficulty spike depending on your team.

I remember getting to this fight and realizing exactly how outclassed I was.

>Speed Charge just before your turn, just to speed charge again
what an absolute troll.

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damn, how the fuck are you supposed to beat that?

Have your own UlforceVeedramon. or three

When you turn on hard mode to spend twenty-something minutes whittling down a boss digimons health even when you use piercing moves while every normal encounter can still be one-shotted.

Become speed.

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I genuinely can't remember how I did it because you needed to beat her in order to make UlforceVeemons.

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I refuse to believe anyone outside of Japan is enough of a battered wife for Digimon to play this far into Cyber Shit.

I haven't given a shit about Digimon in 16 or 17 years before playing Cyber Sleuth. It was a fun game.

Does it have better cyber sluts in it tho and is the female MC cute as a button?

I'm on the same boat as
the game's pretty fun and it seems to go as deep as you want it to, so why not

I mean I cruised through normal mode hoping that it would go full persona and let me build a harem, eventually dropped out because fuck it.

You can certainly obtain a harem.

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>Hear how good this game is for years
>Turns out both combat and story are boring as shit
I really try to like this game but its been 10 fucking hours

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It's pretty good for what it is but ultimately Cybersleuth suffers from not being enough like the anime, they should bite the bullet and ripoff persona/pokemon fully and give the player a single digimon and treat digivolutions as battle buffs and have them revert to rookies after each battle

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Turn on hard mode

Isn't that what Survive is doing?

>Sakuyamon is the only mon with a mass dispell
I like Sakuyamon but the game could've used some more so i dont have to pick her in both CS and HM

If it ever comes out, yeah.

>He still thinks we're getting Survive

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Will that make the story better?

Moves in general could have been way more balanced than they ended up being. There was hardly any reason to use offensive moves that weren't your signature one.

>more like the anime
what does that mean? I remember bits and pieces of the first two series, but certainly not enough to know how the series could learn from it.
also, is it any good nowadays? I'm assuming they kept it going since then

No_

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Get the PS4/Vita version and switch to hard.

how is their hard mode any different?

Gonna start playing soon but I can't tell if I want to play blind or if I want to autistically search for digimon whose final forms I know I'll like for sure.

it's best to seek out all the strongest physical/magical attacks and/or support skills before choosing a final form of your liking

Just play it blind. You never have to commit to any evolution.

Guess I'll go play World for the 34124th time

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Digimon evolution is a web. And because you can de-evolve in these games, it means you can backtrack if you don't like the line you went down.

chances are you won't be able to get them without some detours along the way, so you might as well go in blind

You'll never be fast

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I'm talking about the bond between your singular partner Digimon, cybersleuth manages to fuck this up entirely where pokemon in your boxes will talk to you but theres no interaction if they're in your party, you can't even talk to them in the overworld

Tbh, I think the game Cyber Sleuth has a great story. But I can see where you're coming from. It takes forever for the plot to pick up.